From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:52:36 GMT
Subject: Re: receive.denyNonNonFastForwards not denying force update
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On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> John Arthorne <arthorne.eclipse@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> For all the details see this bugzilla, particularly comment #59 where we
>> finally narrowed this down:
>>
>> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=343150
>
> What does "at the system level" in your "does *not* work at the
> system level." exactly mean?

"git config --system receive.denynonfastforwards true" is not honored.
 At all.  (And I checked there was nothing overriding it).

"--global" does work (is honored).

Tested on 1.7.11